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- Creator:
- Quirk, Zack J.
- Description:
- This repository is supplemental data (raw data) from my doctoral dissertation (2024). My research focused on how flowering plants respond to changing climates, not only with fossil plants in the geologic past, but also to make predictions on how living flowering plants will respond to human-derived climate change. We can examine these responses by examining functional traits, which are strongly associated with environmental and climatic factors. Studying functional traits in leaves is particularly helpful in this case, because they are a plant’s direct interaction with outside abiotic and biotic influences. I explored these plant-climate interactions in non-woody flowering plants (monocots) and ZIngiberaceae (the ginger family) because they are wildly understudied but have great ecological and agricultural importance. The research portion of my dissertation spanned four chapters (2-5). In Chapter 2, I examined the evolutionary and ecological impacts on a well-known leaf functional trait, vein length per area (VLA) in the entire monocot clade. This work revealed that monocot VLA was more associated with a plant’s environment and its habit (size/form), rather than overall evolutionary history. Chapters 3, 4, and 5 focused on Zingiberaceae. In Chapter 3, I tested leaf functional trait-climate relationships and dicot leaf trait reconstruction methods on fossil Zingiberaceae. I found that methods used to reconstruct leaf area and leaf mass area (important leaf functional traits) in fossil dicots were not comparable for use with Zingiberaceae, and likely other monocots. Leaf venation traits, including VLA and two new traits vein thickness (VT) and distance between veins, were largely driven by changes in temperature, which may provide useful information on past plant-climate interactions. In Chapter 4 I explored leaf functional trait response to elevated temperature and [CO2] in two species of living Zingiberaceae. Venation traits were largely driven by temperature, while stomatal and leaf mass traits were strongly associated with both temperature and [CO2]. This work provided potential implications for how living flowering plants may respond to anthropogenic climate change impacts and possibly offer a plant physiology model for fossil gingers, one that is not attainable with fossils. Lastly in Chapter 5 I focused on plant climate niches across the last 100 million years and explored differences in niche expansion and contraction in woody (Metasequoia sp.) and herbaceous (Zingiberaceae) plants. This work revealed that differences in climate niches are largely due to plant growth and dispersal strategies. My results call into question assumptions made for plant-based paleoclimate reconstruction methods, and recommend further training of these methods with additional plant groups. This dissertation provides new insight on living and fossil plant-climate interactions of monocot flowering plants, and lays the foundation for future research.
- Keyword:
- paleobotany, monocot, leaf, functional trait, and fossil
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Puentes-Marin, Juliana, Gonzalez-Melo, Andres, and Umaña, Maria Natalia
- Description:
- This dataset is part of a research project that aims to study how liana and tree seedlings differ in terms of wood anatomy and demography in three tropical forests in Colombia. These forests are located in the municipalities of Cotove (Antioquia), Colorados (Bolivar) and Tyrona (Magdalena).
- Keyword:
- Liana, Tree, Seedlings, Anatomy, Growth
- Citation to related publication:
- González-M., R., Posada, J.M., Carmona, C.P., Garzón, F., Salinas, V., Idárraga-Piedrahita, Á., Pizano, C., Avella, A., López-Camacho, R., Norden, N., Nieto, J., Medina, S.P., Rodríguez-M., G.M., Franke-Ante, R., Torres, A.M., Jurado, R., Cuadros, H., Castaño-Naranjo, A., García, H. and Salgado-Negret, B. (2021), Diverging functional strategies but high sensitivity to an extreme drought in tropical dry forests. Ecology Letters, 24: 451-463. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13659
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- El Shair, Zaid A. and Rawashdeh, Samir A.
- Description:
- The MEVDT dataset was created to fill a critical gap in event-based computer vision research by supplying a high-quality, real-world labeled dataset. Intended to facilitate the development of advanced algorithms for object detection and tracking applications, MEVDT includes multi-modal traffic scene data with synchronized grayscale images and high-temporal-resolution event streams. Additionally, it provides annotations for object detection and tracking with class labels, pixel-precise bounding box coordinates, and unique object identifiers. The dataset is organized into directories containing sequences of images and event streams, comprehensive ground truth labels, fixed-duration event samples, and data indexing sets for training and testing. and To access and utilize the dataset, researchers need specific software or scripts compatible with the data formats included, such as PNG for grayscale images, CSV for event stream data, AEDAT for the encoded fixed-duration event samples, and TXT for annotations. Recommended tools include standard image processing libraries for PNG files and CSV or text parsers for event data. A specialized Python script for reading AEDAT files is available at: https://github.com/Zelshair/cstr-event-vision/blob/main/scripts/data_processing/read_aedat.py, which streamlines access to the encoded event sample data.
- Keyword:
- Computer Vision, Event-Based Vision, Object Detection, Object Tracking, and Multi-Modal Vision Dataset
- Citation to related publication:
- El Shair, Z. and Rawashdeh, S., 2024. MEVDT: Multi-Modal Event-Based Vehicle Detection and Tracking Dataset. Data In Brief (under review)., El Shair, Z. and Rawashdeh, S.A., 2022. High-temporal-resolution object detection and tracking using images and events. Journal of Imaging, 8(8), p.210., El Shair, Z. and Rawashdeh, S., 2023. High-temporal-resolution event-based vehicle detection and tracking. Optical Engineering, 62(3), pp.031209-031209., and El Shair, Z.A., 2024. Advancing Neuromorphic Event-Based Vision Methods for Robotic Perception Tasks (Doctoral dissertation, University of Michigan-Dearborn).
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Yu, Chi-Lin
- Description:
- The study aims to describe how children worldwide progress through a sequence of theory of mind understandings in their development of insights into persons and minds. The focus is on the studies using Wellman and Liu's (2004) Theory of Mind Scale. A comprehensive search was run in PsycINFO, PsycArticles, Child Development & Adolescent Studies, Education Abstracts, Family & Society Studies Worldwide, and Social Sciences Abstracts. The dataset includes 91 studies using Wellman and Liu's (2004) Theory of Mind Scale.
- Keyword:
- meta-analysis, theory of mind, social cognitive development, culture, and conceptual sequences
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Heath, Jeffrey , Ouattara, Aminata , and Hantgan, Abbie
- Description:
- Our project, mainly on Dogon languages of Mali, has branched out to Burkina Faso with emphasis on documentation of the most endangered languages. Tiefo-N was studied on an emergency basis since it was down to two aging competent speakers. For additional comments and links to a reference grammar, see the readme file.
- Keyword:
- Gur languages, Tiefo, Tiefo-N language, and Lexicon
- Citation to related publication:
- Jeffrey Heath, Aminata Ouattara & Abbie Hantgan. Short grammar of Tiefo-N of Nyafogo (Gur, Burkina Faso). Language Description Heritage Library (MPI). http://ldh.clld.org/2017/01/01/escidoc2378140/ and A copy of this publication is also available in Deep Blue: http://dx.doi.org/10.17617/2.2378140
- Discipline:
- Humanities
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- Creator:
- Heath, Jeffrey
- Description:
- Jalkunan is a small-population Mande language spoken in Blédougou village cluster in the Banfora plateau in SW Burkina Faso.A grammar was published electronically at Language Description Heritage Library in 2017. http://ldh.clld.org/2017/01/01/escidoc2346932/ This is backed up at Deep Blue documents. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/139025 http://dogonlanguages.org/other#mande Seven texts were recorded digitally in 2016 and are archived here. Three of them (texts 1, 2, and 4) were transcribed and translated at the end of the published grammar. The remaining tapes are not transcribed as of May 2018. I give permission to other linguists to transcribe, translate, and/or analyse the remaining texts.
- Keyword:
- Jalkunan, Mande, Audio, and Recording
- Citation to related publication:
- Moran, Steven & Forkel, Robert & Heath, Jeffrey (eds.) 2016. Dogon and Bangime Linguistics. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://dogonlanguages.org
- Discipline:
- Humanities
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- Creator:
- Heath, Jeffrey
- Description:
- Documentary-style videos about villages and social relations in Dogon country. Documentaries are given in two or three video formats each.
- Keyword:
- Mali, Dogon, and villages
- Citation to related publication:
- Moran, Steven & Forkel, Robert & Heath, Jeffrey (eds.) 2016. Dogon and Bangime Linguistics. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://dogonlanguages.org
- Discipline:
- Humanities
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- Creator:
- Heath, Jeffrey
- Description:
- This is the flora-fauna lexical material obtained in the course of more general lexical and grammatical fieldwork on languages of central-eastern Mali (Dogon, Songhay, Bangime, Bozo). The spreadsheets in this work, duplicated in xlsx and csv formants, present our flora-fauna lexicons as of early 2019 for many languages of central-eastern Mali, and certain languages of southwestern Burkina Faso. The Malian data is in two spreadsheets (flora, fauna), while the Burkina data is in separate spreadsheets for flora, birds, fish, insects, lizards and snakes, and mammals. Please begin with the “readme” document.
- Keyword:
- flora, fauna, lexicon, Mali, and Burkina Faso
- Citation to related publication:
- Moran, Steven & Forkel, Robert & Heath, Jeffrey (eds.) 2016. Dogon and Bangime Linguistics. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. https://dogonlanguages.org and Christfried Naumann & Tom Güldemann & Steven Moran & Guillaume Segerer & Robert Forkel (eds.) 2015. Tsammalex: A lexical database on plants and animals. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. https://tsammalex.clld.org
- Discipline:
- Humanities
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- Creator:
- Heath, Jeffrey
- Description:
- The spreadsheets (in csv and xlsx formats) have columns for botanical family, genus-species binomials, synonymy (outdated binomials) on the left, folllowed by columns with native terms in several Dogon languages and in Bangime. Dogon languages included are Toro Tegu, Ben Tey, Bankan Tey, Nanga, Jamsay (main dialect), Perge Tegu (Jamsay of Pergé village), Gourou (aberrant variety of Jamsay), Togo Kan, Yorno So and Ibi So (in Toro So dialect complex), Donno So, Tomo Kan (of Segué and of Diangassagou), Tomo Kan, Dogul Dom, Tebul Ure, Yanda Dom, Najamba, Tiranige, Mombo, Ampari, Bunoge, and Penange. JH in column headings indicates that the material is from Dr. Heath's fieldwork. and For images of many of these plants, see the collection "Mali flora images" in Deep Blue Data ( https://doi.org/10.7302/aef4-fk26). For a practical guide to these plants, click on the link below in "related items in Deep Blue Documents".
- Keyword:
- Dogon, Bangime, and flora
- Discipline:
- Humanities
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- Creator:
- Heath, Jeffrey and Dicko, Adama
- Description:
- translation/translation to appear.
- Discipline:
- Humanities